I am research scientist and Manager at Facebook AI Research since 2018, and a faculty member at UCL since 2012. Before that I was a postdoc at UMass and the University of Tokyo, and did my PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Interests
Natural Language Processing, Machine Reading and Reasoning, Graphical Models, Question Answering, Fact Checking, Program Induction and Synthesis, Neuro-Symbolic methods
Latest Publications
NAACL - June 10, 2021
Dynabench: Rethinking Benchmarking in NLP
Douwe Kiela, Max Bartolo, Yixin Nie, Divyansh Kaushik, Atticus Geiger, Zhengxuan Wu, Bertie Vidgen, Grusha Prasad, Amanpreet Singh, Pratik Ringshia, Zhiyi Ma, Tristan Thrush, Sebastian Riedel, Zeerak Waseem, Pontus Stenetorp, Robin Jia, Mohit Bansal, Christopher Potts, Adina Williams
ICLR - May 3, 2021
Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval
Wenhan Xiong, Xiang Lorraine Li, Srinivasan Iyer, Jingfei Du, Patrick Lewis, William Wang, Yashar Mehdad, Wen-tau Yih, Sebastian Riedel, Douwe Kiela, Barlas Oğuz
ACL - May 2, 2021
MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering
Patrick Lewis, Barlas Oğuz, Ruty Rinott, Sebastian Riedel, Holger Schwenk
ICLR - April 29, 2021
Autoregressive Entity Retrieval
Nicola De Cao, Gautier Izacard, Sebastian Riedel, Fabio Petroni
arXiv - January 1, 2021
NeurIPS 2020 EfficientQA Competition: Systems, Analyses and Lessons Learned
Sewon Min, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Chris Alberti, Danqi Chen, Eunsol Choi, Michael Collins, Kelvin Guu, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Kenton Lee, Jennimaria Palomaki, Colin Raffel, Adam Roberts, Tom Kwiatkowski, Patrick Lewis, Yuxiang Wu, Heinrich Küttler, Linqing Liu, Pasquale Minervini, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel, Sohee Yang, Minjoon Seo, Gautier Izacard, Fabio Petroni, Lucas Hosseini, Nicola De Cao, Edouard Grave, Ikuya Yamada, Sonse Shimaoka, Masatoshi Suzuki, Shumpei Miyawaki, Shun Sato, Ryo Takahashi, Jun Suzuki, Martin Fajcik, Martin Docekal, Karel Ondrej, Pavel Smrz, Hao Cheng, Yelong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao, Barlas Oğuz, Xilun Chen, Vladimir Karpukhin, Stan Peshterliev, Dmytro Okhonko, Michael Schlichtkrull, Sonal Gupta, Yashar Mehdad, Wen-tau Yih
NeurIPS - December 6, 2020
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Vladimir Karpukhin, Naman Goyal, Heinrich Küttler, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih, Tim Rocktäschel, Sebastian Riedel, Douwe Kiela
EMNLP - November 19, 2020
Generating Fact Checking Briefs
Angela Fan, Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Guillaume Wenzek, Marzieh Saeidi, Andreas Vlachos, Antoine Bordes, Sebastian Riedel
EMNLP - November 16, 2020
Scalable Zero-shot Entity Linking with Dense Entity Retrieval
Ledell Wu, Fabio Petroni, Martin Josifoski, Sebastian Riedel, Luke Zettlemoyer
WeCNLP - October 30, 2020
Neural Database Operator Model
James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Halevy
ICML - August 13, 2020
Learning Reasoning Strategies in End-to-End Differentiable Proving
Pasquale Minervini, Sebastian Riedel, Pontus Stenetorp, Edward Grefenstette, Tim Rocktäschel
arXiv - August 5, 2020
Question and Answer Test-Train Overlap in Open-Domain Question Answering Datasets
Patrick Lewis, Pontus Stenetorp, Sebastian Riedel
ACL - July 5, 2020
TABERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular Data
Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig, Wen-tau Yih, Sebastian Riedel
Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS - November 30, 2019
MVFST-RL: An Asynchronous RL Framework for Congestion Control with Delayed Actions
Viswanath Sivakumar, Tim Rocktäschel, Alexander H. Miller, Heinrich Küttler, Nantas Nardelli, Michael G. Rabbat, Joelle Pineau, Sebastian Riedel
EMNLP - November 4, 2019
Language Models as Knowledge Bases?
Fabio Petroni, Tim Rocktäschel, Patrick Lewis, Anton Bakhtin, Yuxiang Wu, Alexander H. Miller, Sebastian Riedel
ACL - July 27, 2019
Unsupervised Question Answering by Cloze Translation
Patrick Lewis, Ludovic Denoyer, Sebastian Riedel